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A Gambler's Anatomy : A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (2016, Hardcover) 1ST ED/1PRT

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1ST PRINTING
Subject
AMERICAN LITERATURE
ISBN
9780385539906

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385539908
ISBN-13
9780385539906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219720490

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gambler's Anatomy : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Humorous / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jonathan Lethem
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-006646
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"...Lethem's the best absurdist working in American writing right now and this book promises to be a customary wild ride." -- The Guardian "...delightfully weird..." --Vogue "[Lethem's] flair for off-kilter plot twist and oddball character, seen through a past foray into straightforward historical realism in his  Dissident Gardens,  makes a roaring comeback in  A Gambler's Anatomy." -- Huffington Post "A haunting Kafka-esque parable..." --Esquire "No novelist of recent years has been less predictable than Lethem, whose genre-bending exploits have produced a hybrid literature all his own. In his new novel, his 10th, the author seems to be channeling (and, as usual, transforming) both Thomas Pynchon and Ian Fleming...in short, just another day in Lethemland, as strange and wondrous in its way as anyplace imagined by L. Frank Baum." -- Chicago Tribune , "No novelist of recent years has been less predictable than Lethem, whose genre-bending exploits have produced a hybrid literature all his own. In his new novel, his 10th, the author seems to be channeling (and, as usual, transforming) both Thomas Pynchon and Ian Fleming...in short, just another day in Lethemland, as strange and wondrous in its way as anyplace imagined by L. Frank Baum." -- Chicago Tribune  "Delightfully weird..." --Vogue " A Gambler's Anatomy  joins Michael Chabon's  Telegraph Avenue  in affectionately skewering Berkeley, that land of faded liberal dreams and smug libertarian gentrifiers. But it's also a return to the surrealist paranoia that courses through Lethem's most original books." --Boris Kachka, Vulture "Lethem is famous for his genre bending approach to fiction and this delightfully unusual tale is no exception.  A Gambler's Anatomy  is a spy story wrapped up in a farce wrapped up in a social justice quest narrative, with a dash of horror and the paranormal thrown in for good measure. A tragicomic gem." -LitHub, "Lethem's 10th novel is a romp in which history, both personal and collective, can't help but assert itself...Think Thomas Pynchon, especially in the scenes set in Berkeley, a landscape of hipster burger shops and lost souls still longing for a revolution that washed out in an undertow of drugs and dissolution decades before. [A] fitting follow-up to Dissident Gardens (2013)...Lethem takes real pleasure in the language and writes with a sense of the absurd that illuminates his situations and his characters... In this tragicomic novel, nothing is ever exactly as it seems." -- Kirkus , *Starred Review*
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways. Things don't go much better in Berlin. Bruno's flirtation with Madchen, the striking blonde he meets on the ferry, is inconclusive; the game at the unsettling Herr Kohler's mansion goes awry as his blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis. Having run through Falk's money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley, and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Berkeley, where Bruno discovered his psychic abilities, and to which he vowed never to return. Amidst the patchouli flashbacks and Anarchist gambits of the local scene, between Tira's come-ons and Keith's machinations, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if you're telepathic but it doesn't do you any good?
LC Classification Number
PS3562.E8544G36 2016

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  • by iglitter
    28 Feb, 2017

    Poorly written

    Very poorly written. Uneven, sometimes in real time and sometimes fast as a time warp. Like he just had to finish up. Plot is plodding and often fantastical. It would be overpriced at 1/3 the price. Characters not appealing and the whole thing is just a downer. As for the backgammon? Forgeddaboutit. This book wasn't even good enough to put in the lending library.

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    27 Nov, 2018

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